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15Thou didst cleave{H8804)} the fountain and the flood: thou driedst up{H8689)} mighty rivers.

Psalms 74:15

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.

  • And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

  • He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.

  • And the LORD said unto Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go. …

  • For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-17)

The lamenting church fastens upon something here which she calls to mind, and therefore hath she hope (as Lam. 3:21), with which she encourages herself and silences her own complaints. Two things quiet the minds of those that are here sorrowing for the solemn assembly:— I. That God is the God of Israel, a God in covenant with his people (Ps. 74:12): God is my King of old . This comes in both as a…

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